PDF Creator/Shared Printer

[Ben Pfaff]

Dpk <dpk@egr.msu.edu> writes:

> Should be:
> 
>   #!/bin/sh
>   /usr/bin/ps2pdf - /home/samba/pdf_output/$$.pdf
> 
> $$.pdf is a cheap hack that will name the pdf file with the process
> id, (i.e. 1452.pdf) [...]

A slightly less cheap hack would prevent duplicates and allow for
ordering in chronological order based on name:
	/usr/bin/ps2pdf - /blah/`date +%Y.%m.%m`.$$.pdf

A good source of info on this sort of thing is the LPRng HOW-TO
document, which provides lots of advice on how to write filters,
including parsing command line options from a shell script using
the shell `getopt' function.